KG1960
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Post by KG1960 on Jul 14, 2006 7:58:02 GMT -5
Oh-oh. Information that I stumbled across when searching for cicada was that the female has a tube that pierces small twigs in trees which is how and where she lays eggs.
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jul 14, 2006 8:41:47 GMT -5
Oh man... Now I'M freakin out...in light of the new information provided by kg1960, Doc's theory is sounding more and more plausable.....lol ...I'm rushing out to buy as much insecticide as I can get!  |
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jul 14, 2006 9:19:23 GMT -5
Blarney- Insecticide is no good against the electricals- TINFOIL hats and 9 volt batteries!!!it is the only way
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Post by ladyt on Jul 14, 2006 9:30:43 GMT -5
And lots of Beer!! Works better than insecticide! LOL
Tonja
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jul 14, 2006 10:35:45 GMT -5
You mean like this Stefan? hehehe.... I have all the proper protection from the Electricals...   |
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Post by Cher on Jul 14, 2006 11:27:52 GMT -5
ROFLMAO
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Jul 14, 2006 11:59:47 GMT -5
ooohhhhhh MMMAAAANNNNN! I coulda gone the rest of my life without hearin bout that tube thingie...
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thehawke
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Post by thehawke on Jul 14, 2006 13:43:14 GMT -5
I thought cicadas were only seen every 14 yrs or so. Or am I thinking of another C bug? Typically found in the midwest. In my lifetime, there have been 2 big hatchings. The latest was a few years back. I remember recipes in the news articles announcing their arrival. ICK!!!!
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jul 14, 2006 17:01:29 GMT -5
Just read a little bit more on Periodical Cicadas and annual Cicadas. The life cycle for the periodical Cicada's normally lasts from 2-8 years. There are seven species of Periodical Cicada; four have 13-year life cycles and three have 17-year cycles. There are no periodical cicada emergences anticipated for 2006 in the US. But next year the 17-year cicadas will emerge in eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and along the southern edge of Lake Michigan. Annual Cicadas emerge every year of course... Here's a link to the U of M entomology pages with everything you could possibly want to know about these noisy little guys! www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/magicicada/Periodical/Index.html |
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Post by docone31 on Jul 14, 2006 19:05:59 GMT -5
Dude, the battery is backwards, and the hat is shaped wrong! It has to be like a pyramid and one side has to always be towards true north. I like the rain coat though. I never thought of that.
The other side of the projectile tube in the skin. Bot Flies lay their eggs in the tube after the creature/mimic, injects its eggs. The Bot Fly larvae grows quite large and eats weaker young critters. It then injests a nerve bundle so it cannot be removed. The larvae get quite large from the Bot Fly, the Cuterbrae can get up to 2" in length, and up to 1/2 inches in diameter.
The larvae has two chitlyn rakers, which look like redneck front teeth. It scrapes the inner wound channel to injest the blood of its host, which attracts the critter larvae. They are nasty.
Meantime, the Electricals are feeding on the electrical anxiety.
Put that battery poles in, and touch the tongue to it. It shorts out the chip the Dentists put in the fillings in the molars. Shorting out the chip disallows the satellite to track you. If the Electricals can track you, they exit the electrical recepticals at night, and feed off synaptic response in the cortex.
They are bad. Real bad.
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Debs
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Post by Debs on Jul 15, 2006 1:10:14 GMT -5
They are just one creepy summer bug...buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Jul 16, 2006 18:21:14 GMT -5
It is an alien DNA modified green horsefly.
Don't know about the DNA modified part, but it is dang sure a horse fly!
I know them intimately because I was bit by hundreds of them back when I had a barnful of horses. Nasty little devils! I miss not having horses, but I sure don't miss those horse flies!
llana
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 16, 2006 21:20:17 GMT -5
Cher's pic.....  Pic from Cicadamania.com, same bug.....  |
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Jul 16, 2006 22:20:26 GMT -5
Doesn't look like the same bug to me. Maybe if the first pic was in color it would or if I had ever seen a Cicada in person. Just looks like a plain ole Texas/Oklahoma horse fly to me.  But, I'm no bug expert! I try to stay as far away from bugs as possible! llana |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 17, 2006 6:40:56 GMT -5
You have scorpions down there darlin, you can have your bugs and I'll keep mine. ;D .....Funny story..... I was working on a friend's car one day and a cicada landed on my leg. I brushed him off and he landed on my leg again. My buddy took him off my leg and took him in the back yard. Two minutes later he came back to the front of the house and landed on my leg again. (honest). Craziest thing that I ever had happen with a bug. I had also just finished painting a car and still had the smell of enamel on me. Maybe he liked the smell of paint (or the cheap "buzz" that he got from it) lol
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